India lodges protest with Canadian government after Modi's right-hand man linked to 'violent criminal activity'

India has officially protested against the Canadian government's allegation linking President Modi's right-hand antheral to alleged plots against Sikh separatists. 

Relations betwixt the 2 countries person been tense for much than a twelvemonth aft Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said determination were credible allegations the Indian authorities had links to the assassination of Sikh activistic Hardeep Singh Nijjar successful Canada. India has vehemently rejected the accusation.

Last month, the Washington Post reported that Canadian officials suspected Amit Shah, India's almighty location curate and Narendra Modi's right-hand man, had ordered the targeting of Sikh activists wrong Canada.

Canada's lawman overseas affairs curate David Morrison confirmed to a parliamentary sheet connected Tuesday that helium had told the paper Mr Shah was down the plots.

India has present told Canada it "protests successful the strongest presumption to the absurd and baseless references made to the Union Home Minister of India," according to the overseas ministry's spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal connected Saturday.

Mr Jaiswal besides accused Canada of "flagrant" violations of diplomatic conventions, aft helium said the Canadian authorities told consular unit they were "under audio and video surveillance".

Killing of Hardeep Singh Nijjar

In September past year, Mr Trudeau accused the Indian authorities of being linked to the assassination of Canadian national Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who died successful June 2023.

He was changeable dormant successful the parking batch of a Sikh temple successful Surrey, British Columbia, wherever helium was president.

"Any engagement of a overseas authorities successful the sidesplitting of a Canadian national connected Canadian ungraded is an unacceptable usurpation of our sovereignty," Mr Trudeau told Canada's House of Commons astatine the time.

India rejected the accusation arsenic "absurd" and told Canada to region 41 of its 62 diplomats successful the country.

Mr Nijjar, 45, was a salient protagonist of a separatist question that wants to found an autarkic homeland for Sikhs successful India, wherever they are a minority.

He had antecedently been branded a "terrorist" by the Indian government, according to section reports, and was portion of the banned Khalistan movement.

Read more: What is the Khalistan movement

In October, Canada expelled six Indian diplomats, including the precocious commissioner Sanjay Kumar Verma, aft constabulary uncovered grounds of ongoing convulsive transgression enactment linked to India's government.

At the aforesaid time, India ordered the expulsion of six Canadian diplomats, successful a tit-for-tat exchange.

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Separately, US officials alleged Indian agents were progressive successful an attempted assassination crippled against Sikh separatist person Gurpatwant Singh Pannun successful New York past year.

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The US Justice section indicted an Indian nationalist moving astatine the behest of an unnamed Indian authorities official.

However, the Indian authorities told US officials successful October the unnamed authoritative nary longer worked for the authorities and a US spokesperson said Washington was satisfied with India's cooperation.